Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026

A conference on the latest digital methodologies in the humanities and related fields of research. Emerging Digital Methodologies is an annual conference for early-career researchers and graduates exploring the use of digital methodologies across the humanities and related disciplines. Following the inaugural conference in 2025, which attracted more than 140 attendees, we are delighted to announce the return of Emerging Digital Methodologies for 2026. Since the turn of the millennium, digital and computational methodologies have become increasingly prolific at the cutting edge of language and humanities research. Utilising digital techniques from other disciplines has allowed historically qualitative fields to rethink key questions, bring new understandings to foundational sources, increase information accessibility, and lead to previously unexplored cross-disciplinary research. This conference will bring together researchers who are using digital methods to rethink established fields, explore new applications for conventional digital methods, and look at how digital methodologies are being translated in the cross-disciplinary space. Presentations will capture a wide range of subject areas across the many communities of scholars utilising digital methods – both from novices and expert practitioners. The event is part of the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme with support from the Voltaire Foundation, Digital Scholarship@Oxford, the Centre for Digital Scholarship, and Jesus College Oxford. Tickets include lunch, tea breaks and a wine reception. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options will be available, and a list of allergens will be displayed. If you have any other dietary requirements, please contact [email protected] at the point of booking your ticket so that we can accommodate this. FIND US This event will take place in the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford. The Hub entrance is on Market Street (opposite Wagamama). The Hub is accessible, with automatic double doors at the entrance and lifts to and from the main lower ground floor event space. If you have any accessibility requirements, please do contact [email protected] and we are happy to help. *Filming and photography will be taking place during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please notify a member of the Hub team on arrival.